Customer Reviews:
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 Great But I Wish I Had Better Service May 17, 2008
A. Downs (USA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I've had this phone for about a month. It seems sturdy. Getting the battery cover on/off was a HUGE pain but at least I feel confident that it's not going to pop off in my pocket. The screen is bright and shiny and it'll hold a charge for days if you aren't listening to music or surfing the internet excessively. The size is perfect for carrying around in your pocket. The call quality is great, if you have more than two bars, and the speaker phone is nice and loud. It's easy to customize with themes and ringtones and best of all, it plays well with Mac.
Mobile Email: There's no audio indicator to let you know you have received mail. The screen flashes to let you know an email has come thru but there's no sound or icon displayed on the main screen to let you know a message is waiting. Also, the Mobile Email app does not allow attachments so you must use MMS to send photos.
Media Net: It's usually very fast to load but does not allow you to set your own homepage. You HAVE to load the Media Net page first before going to your bookmarks.
Camera: For a mobile phone, the photos are pretty good. There is an option to change the size (VGA, 1MP and 2MP) and the white balance. There's also a very cool panorama setting. There is no flash but the night mode is decent.
Messaging: I LOVE being able to send voice text messages. It's incredibly useful when you're on the go and don't have time to click-click-click just to type one letter. (I've only ever used QWERTY keypads so the click-click-clicking is annoying to me.)
Address Book: To avoid all the typing, I just dragged and dropped my contacts from my desktop address book to the phone's address book via Bluetooth (on Mac OS X).
Organizer: A lot of great features (alarms, fitness stuff, tasks, notes, calendar, timer, stopwatch, etc.) but I do wish there was an easy way to sync it with iCal. It would save me a ton of time.
Music: The radio is great. The MP3 player is great. I love being able to shuffle songs with a flick of my wrist... and being able to listen without having my headphones plugged in.
Games: I haven't explored this yet.
Memory Card: It uses an M2 card which I found easily at Best Buy for $20 (2GB).
My only big complaint has to do with AT&T. I can't even begin to count the number of dropped calls I've had. I was on T-Mobile before this and never experienced a dropped call. Also, the signal strength is sporadic. I've literally seen the bars go from red (no signal) to three blue bars and back again in a matter of seconds with the phone in a stationary position. It's bizarre. Also, I have to go outside to talk because the signal is terrible in my house. According to AT&T's coverage map, I'm considered to be in one of the "best" coverage areas... and yet the best I can get is three bars OUTSIDE.
Nice Phone February 21, 2008
Goutham K. Gosu (Philadelphia,PA USA)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
OK, Nothing really fancy. I got it for my wife, she likes it. It has all the basic features and headphones sound good for the music. You need to get the micro card probably other $30 or so a 2gb.It has the basic bluetooth,camera and stuff. The picture resolution is pretty good. It does not have 3G thats a negative. Overall its a good phone, not for guys..It looks like a toy in my hand, but looks good in my wife's hand...
missing features of old versions April 30, 2008
Abbey Colbert (Bountiful, UT USA)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I just upgraded my Sony Ericsson W600i to the W580i. The sound and picture quality is much better and I get better reception but I lost two of my favorite features from the old phone. The W580i does not have a LED light and it will not play mp3 files as ringtones. I really miss having mp3 songs playing as my ringtone.
Walkman FM radio +++ but small keypad November 2, 2008
Mother of Twins
I bought this phone because it had Walkman FM radio, too. This phone is pretty (I got the PINK one), lightweight, has lots of whiz-bang menu selections, but doesn't wow or impress me as much as the Samsung A737 or Samsung A747 models which I bought for my children. I listen to the radio a lot, more than MP3s and really thought this feature would be cool. If you like effects, it has 16 settings for flashing light patterns customized for every caller. It takes a day to find out how to set the patterns in all the menus....
The keypad is a bit on the small side, and feel like dry plastic. It's OK for me because I have small hands, but I don't think a man would enjoy using the small, non-descript keys. The letters on the keys are hard to see being so small. When I enter text, I still have to look--er, squint--at the keypad. I don't pay for texting service, so it's not a huge hassle, but if you text, I can't imagine it would be much fun.
When I enter an phone number in the address book, it doesn't put hyphens between the area code, prefix, and last four digits. That's not fatal, but a pet peeve, and makes it difficult for me to figure out the numbers as they come up.
The M2 Memory Stick is not common, but Sony Ericsson uses it. They supply a 512MB one. Buying one with more memory will not be cheap. The access slot is on the top. It took me a while to figure out how to open the little, flat plastic door. Which side to open? It doesn't have a flap, can't open with a fingernail, so I use an unfolded paper clip or other similar-sized object to pry it open.
You need the wired earphones to have FM service. If you like radio, it's just one more thing to carry around. The sound quality is EXCELLENT on this wire unit and the ear buds very comfy. It also works as "handsfree" phone device if you don't want to do Bluetooth.
The display, although narrow, is bright and sharp. The sound is good, and it interfaces well with my Bluetooth earpiece and Palm device. The phone is very lightweight and slim. I dropped it a few times but the case didn't scratch or crack. The pink IS pretty, and has little red "jewels" between the number keys (other color models have different color jewels). The speaker phone option works well and is clear to hear. The slider is a little unusual to work at first, but works very nicely. Sony Ericsson phone support is SUPER, too.
 4 broken phones March 13, 2008
Aimee Woods (USA)
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
This is an update to my original review dated back in March 2008:
If I could have returned this phone, I would have. AT&T does offer a 1-year warranty with this phone and I've put it to good use. I've had to exchange this phone a total of 4 times now.
The keypad continues to crack after a week or two of use. I've had both receiver and speaker problems where either I can't hear people or they can't hear me. I wouldn't suggest buying this phone (the pink one). However, a friend of mine has the black one and hasn't had any serious problems with it. I did an online search and found that both the pink and white 580i's have had manufacturing issues.
ORIGINAL REVIEW:
I purchased one of these phones 2 weeks ago, only to have the phone die 4 days later (when people would call me, it was like the phone was on permanent "mute"). Plus, my keypad was cracking so I went back to the AT&T store and exchanged it for another one ~ which I've had now for just a little over a week... and the keypad is cracking again! Neither phone was abused in anyway. This phone has a lot of fun features. The sound quality on the MP3 player is great! But after 2 broken phones in less than 2 weeks, I don't plan on getting a 3rd one.
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